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Cracked always dropping heat...the articles on insects and animals are the best...the one about what a swarm of bees do just to fukk with a dragonfly will have you like 
I like #2 because it reminds me of when certain individuals (
) call people from the urban areas "thugs" and "animals" without considering the socioeconomic and environmental factors that create the situation they are in.
) call people from the urban areas "thugs" and "animals" without considering the socioeconomic and environmental factors that create the situation they are in.#2. We're Hard-Wired to Have a Double Standard
Here's a good way to ruin your afternoon. Go on the Internet and find any discussion thread that brings up overweight people (like this or this one). Stand back and watch as a crowd absolutely rants about how incredibly easy it is to lose weight, and how incredibly lazy you have to be to get fat. The conclusion will be that being fat is literally a moral failing and the sign of a bad, disgusting human being. It's to the point of actual anger and violence directed toward the overweightin real life -- the fat are one of the last groups people can openly hate.
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In at least four states, we can legally hunt this man.
But now take any of those people and try using the same logic with theirweaknesses:
"You're struggling to get by on your income? I can't imagine how lazy a person would have to be to not be wealthy. Just go out there and make money! Duh!"
"You don't have a girlfriend? I can't imagine how much of an antisocial dikk you have to be to not get a beautiful woman to love you. How hard is it to get off your ass and be a dynamic, sexy, personable human being?"
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"Seriously dude, just stop having a micropenis."
"You drink alcohol? Or smoke cigarettes? Or smoke pot? Why don't you try not doing those things?"
"You suffer from depression or anxiety? Uh, have you tried not?"
Now watch as they rattle off ten thousand extenuating circumstances for theirembarrassing problem (the economy is bad, women are bytches, I have an addiction) while completely rejecting all of the similar causes of obesity.
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"My compulsive, life-shortening habit is completely different from overeating. Namely, it's much sexier."
The Science:
It's called the fundamental attribution error.
It's a universal thought process that says when other people screw up, it's because they're stupid or evil. But when we screw up, it's totally circumstantial. Like if you notice a coworker showing up to work high on mescaline, it's because he's an out-of-control peyote hound. But if you show up at work high on mescaline, it's because you had a flat tire and you needed the distraction.
The process feels so obvious when explained -- we simply lack information about the context in which the other person screwed up, and so we fill it in with our own. If we've never been fat, then we assume the fat guy feels the exact same level of hunger as we do, that his metabolism is the same, that his upbringing is the same, that the spare time and energy he can devote to exercise is the same as ours. We think that both of us faced the exact same fork in the road and only one of us chose to eat churros.
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About 40 of these a week for two years are all that separate you from that guy who had to be airlifted out of his living room.
The reality is, of course, that you were on completely different roads. The assumption that everyone's circumstances are identical is so plainly wrong as to be borderline insane, but everyone does it. Pundits and politicians alike mock the unemployed as lazy, even though their own data shows that for every five unemployed people, there is only one open job. "I don't understand, can't you all just become radio talk show hosts like me?"
So During Your Next Argument, Remember ...
Forget about talking politics with your crazy shop teacher for a second. If you're consistently doing this when arguing with your significant other, that's a good sign that the relationship is dying. Listen for it -- when you forgot to do the dishes, it was because you had a thousand other things on your mind. When she forgot, it's because she doesn't care. If you find yourself automatically dismissing your partner's explanations as "excuses," you've gone to a bad place from which most relationships do not return.
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"You didn't take out the trash this morning. Is it because you don't love me anymore?"
#4. Our Brains Don't Understand Probability
I think this is huge
I think this is huge
Cracked always dropping heat...the articles on insects and animals are the best...the one about what a swarm of bees do just to fukk with a dragonfly will have you like
Can you find a link to that one?
http://www.cracked.com/article_20084_the-6-most-mind-blowing-superpowers-bees.html
#2. Transform
Most insects just shut down or die when it gets cold, because the ability to thermoregulate is typically a mammalian trait. But bees have worked out an ingenious heating system for themselves, as well as the whole hive. These industrious bugs can crank up the thermostat by as much as 35 degrees Celsius. In times of cold, bees can disengage their wings and turn on just their wing muscles to warm up. They have a neutral gear that lets them rev up the engine for heat -- it's like running in place without moving your legs. The ability to control their temperature means that bees can forage when it's still too cold for competitors and predators, and it also allows them to heat their hives in the winter to keep them cozy even in freezing temperatures, effectively acting like live mini heaters. And if it gets too hot during the summer, a few of the workers will line up and flap their wings to fan everyone, becoming living ceiling fans.
But that's not the only thing our feisty flower fondlers do with their command over ambient temperatures. When bees face an overwhelming threat, like the dreaded Asian giant hornet, their normal defenses are useless. Their small stingers are not strong enough to pierce the hornet's exoskeleton. So instead, the bees will Zerg rush the offending hornet with a technique called balling. By encapsulating the invader in a living sphere of sweaty, writhing bodies, the bees can smother it by cranking up the heat and the carbon dioxide. With 500 gyrating bees all clumped together, they'll raise the temperature to 117 degrees Fahrenheit, literally cooking the wasp. Alone, an individual bee is almost helpless, but when they combine in Voltron-like fashion, they become a living microwave oven. Balling ... it's not just for hustlers and porn stars anymore.
Read this and you will have a new found respect for bees and how fukking intelligent they are...the whole article is craaaazzzyyyy
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http://www.cracked.com/article_20084_the-6-most-mind-blowing-superpowers-bees.html
#2. Transform
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Most insects just shut down or die when it gets cold, because the ability to thermoregulate is typically a mammalian trait. But bees have worked out an ingenious heating system for themselves, as well as the whole hive. These industrious bugs can crank up the thermostat by as much as 35 degrees Celsius. In times of cold, bees can disengage their wings and turn on just their wing muscles to warm up. They have a neutral gear that lets them rev up the engine for heat -- it's like running in place without moving your legs. The ability to control their temperature means that bees can forage when it's still too cold for competitors and predators, and it also allows them to heat their hives in the winter to keep them cozy even in freezing temperatures, effectively acting like live mini heaters. And if it gets too hot during the summer, a few of the workers will line up and flap their wings to fan everyone, becoming living ceiling fans.
But that's not the only thing our feisty flower fondlers do with their command over ambient temperatures. When bees face an overwhelming threat, like the dreaded Asian giant hornet, their normal defenses are useless. Their small stingers are not strong enough to pierce the hornet's exoskeleton. So instead, the bees will Zerg rush the offending hornet with a technique called balling. By encapsulating the invader in a living sphere of sweaty, writhing bodies, the bees can smother it by cranking up the heat and the carbon dioxide. With 500 gyrating bees all clumped together, they'll raise the temperature to 117 degrees Fahrenheit, literally cooking the wasp. Alone, an individual bee is almost helpless, but when they combine in Voltron-like fashion, they become a living microwave oven. Balling ... it's not just for hustlers and porn stars anymore.
Read this and you will have a new found respect for bees and how fukking intelligent they are...the whole article is craaaazzzyyyy
Haha I was just reading this very article and came back on here and saw you linked it.
I hate that fat ppl argument. It makes 0 sense to me. The main reason is the math behind getting fat.
At some point, in order to get to (lets take a number out the air) 250 pounds, you had to pass 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240…..
you see, there are intervals to the fatness….nobody wakes up and is automatically fat. Being fat or in shape is a representation of time. It's not simply a physical state. Once folks realize that and start looking at it from a mathematics perspective, then we won't have these go nowhere ass conversations.
I don't care about how you got so fat that you weight 250 pounds. I wanna know why when you weighted 170, you CONTINUED to do the shyt that got you to 170. And why when you got to 180 you CONTINUED to do the shyt that got you to 170. And on and on and on…..
fukk.
At some point, in order to get to (lets take a number out the air) 250 pounds, you had to pass 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240…..
you see, there are intervals to the fatness….nobody wakes up and is automatically fat. Being fat or in shape is a representation of time. It's not simply a physical state. Once folks realize that and start looking at it from a mathematics perspective, then we won't have these go nowhere ass conversations.
I don't care about how you got so fat that you weight 250 pounds. I wanna know why when you weighted 170, you CONTINUED to do the shyt that got you to 170. And why when you got to 180 you CONTINUED to do the shyt that got you to 170. And on and on and on…..
fukk.
i don't get this....#4. Our Brains Don't Understand Probability
I think this is huge
this thread is n/a for me cause. i tell other ppl what this thread says.
Again, you still aren't seeing it from the other person's perspective. You honestly think that all obese people ate themselves into obesity in a careless way? There are biological factors present in some (not all) of the people. That's why the article makes sense. I don't judge or look down on obese people because their may be underlying issue with them or their biological makeup (hormones, brain, heredity, etc.)
Body dystrophic disorder. People aren't standing on a scale all day and rarely perceive themselves as other see them.
weighing 250 pounds isnt perception. Its reality. I dont care what u think u see in the mirror. Going from 170 to 250 implies a change in clothes size. Stop.
As I said, its not about u being 250. Its about why u couldnt prevent it.
nobody spazzes on overweight folks. Ppl spazz on fat, sloppy ppl
Going back to the original point of this thread you are emphasizing point #5 of the article. Argumentative theory of reasoning folks
i spaz on overweight ppl. i can't stand overweight ppl. i don't give a fuq about their reasons or how they got where they are.
i hate fat ppl.
fat ppl though are like drug addicts. they are damaged. they can help it. and the way a crackhead is always thinking abuot getting crack, fat ppl always thinking about eating and talking about food and being hungry. them fuccin fat bastids just piss me off. they are lazy sweating panting mofos who can't do anything. aaaaaaaaaaaaah i just want to kill myself thinking about fat ppl.
i started hating food being around fat ppl. i can't even eat around fat ppl. and i fuccin hate thanksgivings its the worst holiday ever created in the history of the multiverse.
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Going back to the original point of this thread you are emphasizing point #5 of the article. Argumentative theory of reasoning folks
How? are you suggesting I'm trying to bully my way in this thread or in life in general?
Not to mention, I don't even understand how body dysmorphic disorder plays a role in my original post….so please explain both kind sir